Making of the Universe, The.
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Blackwell, Antoinette Brown. The Making of the Universe. Evolution the Continuous Process Which Derives the Finite from the Infinite. Boston: The Gorham Press, 1914.
8vo.; endpapers faintly offset; light waterstain to top edge and rear endpapers, not affecting text; dark green cloth; stamped in black; edgeworn. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
First edition; with pencil underlining and marginal ticks on about a dozen pages, and a pencil annotation on the bottom of page 24 that reads, “Int law ThermoDy energy can be neither created nor destroyed (Einstein calls it ‘matter’) E = MC2.”
A presentation copy, inscribed on the second endpaper to Annie J. Bronson: Elizabeth, November 25, 1914/Miss Anie L. Bronson/best wishes from an old time/ friend of herself /her grandmother /her mother/her father/and her sister/Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Blackwell was a founder and pastor emeritus of the All Souls Unitarian Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which the inscription indicates was where this book was inscribed.
Annie J. Bronson was the hostess of a "small, inexpensive literary club" called Miss Bronson's Musical-Literary Club, which she founded in 1896, and at which she gave lectures and presented "musicales." Blackwell was a guest lecturer at one meeting in 1898, where she read a poem she wrote titled, "Creation." Bronson lived at 32 West 40th Street in New York.
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